New Haven’s earliest stucco building is the John Cook House on Elm Street. Built around 1805-1807, the house is also notable for its third-floor arch-ceilinged ballroom, possibly constructed by David Hoadley in 1814, when Capt. James Goodrich purchased the house.
Located on Church Street, across from the Green, New Haven’s City Hall was one of America’s earliest High Victorian Gothic buildings. It was designed by Henry Austin and was completed in 1861, with the addition of a similar brownstone county court house building on the north side in 1871, designed by David R. Brown. The City Hall‘s clock tower was later removed, creating a truncated appearance, but the building was restored in 1976 with a rebuilt clock tower. More recently, after many years of considering alternatives for a new government center, the rear and north portions of the original building were demolished and replaced with new additions, while the front portion was maintained.
The home of the Yale Repertory Theatre is located on Chapel Street in New Haven. Originally built as Calvary Baptist Church in 1871, the building’s steeple was removed in 1966 when it was deconsecrated and sold to become a theater. The church was designed by Rufus G. Russell, who had trained with Henry Austin.
Luzon B. Morris was a governor of Connecticut for two years, 1893-1895. He died the year he left office. His house in New Haven was built in 1873 on Prospect Street. It is an Italianate-style house featuring elements of the Stick style. It was purchased by Yale in 1957 and restored in 1990. The building is home to the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
The William Trowbridge House is an 1871 Italianate-style home, located on Prospect Street in New Haven. Trowbridge was a Yale professor of dynamic engineering in the 1870s. His family continued to live in the house after his death. It was acquired by Yale in 1984.
The Henchman S. Soule House, on Chapel Street in New Haven, is late Greek Revival-style house near Wooster Square. Soule was a sea captain. In 1862, he sold the house to Henry S. Parmalee, a piano maker, founder of the New Haven Trolley line and inventor of the first practical automatic sprinkler system, which he had installed in both his factory and his home. The house was restored in 1999 and is now a bed-and-breakfast known as the Historic Mansion Inn.
An extravagant Italian villa-style house was constructed in 1862 for John S. Graves, secretary and treasurer of the New Haven Gas Company, on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven. In 1877, it became the home of James M.B. Dwight. The house, which is now owned by Yale, represents a late evolution of the Italianate style in New Haven and was restored in 1994.